It's about as oppressive as western society saying women shouldn't dress like whores.In other words, it's a matter of decency and chastity.
That's a false equivalence.
no, I don't think you have a right to go calling yourself religious if you're not going to practice the mandatory parts of the religion while inciting evil and lust in men around you.
Just where does a woman's responsibility for a man's lust toward her end? Sure, if I am trying to have a peaceful dinner in the park, and a girl is naked and crawling all over me, then she's clearly making an effort. If a woman wears tight fitting and revealing clothing, she is probably wanting to be noticed. Even so - that doesn't give men excuse to abandon the ethics and morals which govern the conduct between men and women.
When you are at the point where women showing their face, or even the overall body structure of a female, is considered 'provoking' men and making it the woman's responsibility to 'not make herself a target' - you have let yard animals take over your culture. Women don't need a burka in that setting, they or the few good men remaining need a scythe to strike down the criminals and bring order to the savages.
First off, women shouldn't be working for the most part, that's a man's role to provide for himself and the women in his family. That said, western society has gone against traditional values that were set in place by Christianity and convinced feminists that getting a job is better than being a stay at home mother. Shockingly, God was right, who would have thought a women fulfilling her natural role would lead to happiness?
There is some common ground to be found, here.
It's not that I don't think women should be working - women willing to jump in and get the job done are awesome and infinitely preferable to dolls, wall flowers, or simple breed stock. It's that men are failing when women -must- be the ones to step up and answer. As you said - that is our biological role as men.
Working with women, while preferable, introduces a number of its own complications. I will not deny that I am a bit of a sexist - I certainly prefer the company of women to men. Depending on the task - I think the male/female unit working together functions extremely well. Men tend to have a very linear and organized approach to breaking down a task while women tend to naturally fall into a supporting role - such as going to grab the tool designed to solve the problem as the guy is going raging-monkey on an uncooperative machination.
However, men also have an unfair preference for women. It should be rather easy to see with the games and media I like - I prefer to set up all female teams. That's a problem, as in the real world, men and women are not simple cameos over otherwise equal stats. Of the numerous people I have rotate through my station as temporary labor help, the men tend to be far more quick studies and tend to have far fewer problems physically performing the demands of the job. I show a guy what is going on once, and he's usually figuring things out on his own. I show a girl... and I usually have to come back around and explain things a little better after I get that look of ".... help?" from across the aisle.
Generally speaking, men should dominate the position I am in if we are going strictly according to performance. That said - there is a certain sort of 'romance' (situational, not really interpersonal) to the idea of a woman succeeding in a man's world. Male fantasy stories are dominated by women who are the equals of men in the world of work and contest. If the role of men and women is mutually supportive of each other, it makes sense that men would want to try and advance women into roles they are not the superior performers in simply for the sake of that romantic ideal of pure egalitarianism.
Which is cute when a girl is struggling to cut steel banding a guy of even lighter build can snap right off.... dangerous when you have women expected to stand toe-to-toe with picks against ore veins and other such pursuits. The pursuit of idealism has a cost.
Not only that, women with children also work, leaving the kid's in the care of strangers, which creates behavioral problems and a sense of detachment/abandonment from the parent's. If one parent is enough to provide for the kids, the mother shouldn't be working as her job is to take care of the kids.
Again, I don't completely disagree. However, the concept of 'work' and 'career' has also changed, or, rather, been dominated by the masculine role. The 'working woman' of the West came out of both the Industrial Revolution and the Post-Depression War economies of the West as men were rounded up to go kill each other and women left to figure out how to produce the means. That was literally displacing men with women in a male career path.
Women are far more than simple child-bearers, and can aspire to more in their lives - should, I would argue. The question is how to integrate this with the rather obvious realization that women must ultimately be the bearers of children in society.
There are few greater tragedies, in my mind, than the conclusion a few great young women I know, personally, have arrived at... that the world would be better off if they didn't have children. This is probably one of the most horrifying things to hear from someone - particularly women who I have recognized as extremely intelligent and well mannered. If ANYONE should be having kids at some point in their life - it should be them.
Consider how heinous it is... girls are raised to believe the world is on the edge of disaster, that their problems are centered around men, etc. Then, those who are particularly intelligent and have a sense of responsibility decide to take it upon themselves to
end their family lineage. Tens... hundreds... of thousands of years... millions of years of men and women fighting against the odds to come to this day... only to have their daughters give up on the idea of life succeeding.
While the slobbering masses who can barely process existentialism reproduce ad-nausea. It's enough to drive a person like myself to spitting anger, dropping meteors on heads.
But to address what you said, no I don't think it should be banned in the work place. It's just an article of clothing, so why pick it out specifically amidst all the other types of clothing? I mean, for God's sake, you have faggots in their parades wearing BDSM gear and sexualizing children, and you want to tell me a women dressing modestly is something to be shunned? I guess the west is all for that considering the *** positivity nonsense has done nothing but harm society.
Stand by on the sexualizing of children thing. Lot of people getting ready to go to jail for that nonsense.
While I would disagree with the statement that the Burka should be banned in public - what I would say is that within America, at the very least, all cultures are subject to the law. The law states that there are certain liberties afforded to citizens, and that no legal structure, national, state, or local, can act against them. This has been upheld in the court of law. I can't sign a contract that binds me to indentured servitude. I am free to quit that 'job' and work at another.
As such, no religious group has authority to violate those liberties, either. A church, for example, can't fine me or deprive me of property I own as a consequence for violating some religious tenant. They can decide not to let me back in the building - but there are limits to what consequences can precipitate from a religious organization. As such - a muslim community could not impose legal consequences on a woman who refused to wear a Burka from among them. They may not have to let her into their mosque and/or be able to kick her out of the house - but any kind of vigilantism or extra-legal penalty system is against the law.
You will see this come into effect as certain religious groups (not just one) within the U.S. are dealt with rather harshly for having their own system of underground laws and codes used to pass judgment on 'members' outside the bounds of the laws established as set forth by the U.S. Constitution.
Likewise, there are dress requirements for any job. I can't wear loose fitting clothing in the factory because it can get caught on stuff and pull me into a machine. That... and if you want to wear a burka in a factory during the heat of August... have fun with that. Even the locals of the Persian Gulf thought we were fucking insane for working at high noon and sweating through it.
Other jobs require you to be visible. A burka destroys most of that.